Reflecting jitters over the debt crisis however, investors injected $2.8 billion into taxable fixed income funds and for the second week in a row bought into money market funds to the tune of $2.9 billion.

Despite tensions in the funding market (LIBOR dollar rates were up again and 3-month euro/dollar cross-currency basis swaps hit their widest since December 2008 at 134bps yesterday), money market funds especially in the United States are attracting safe-haven flows. According to flow data from the Investment Company Institute, total U.S. money market mutual funds increased by $6.41 billion to $2.645 trillion for the week ended Wednesday.

Money market funds are a very safe investment vehicle, and in fact are often looked at as simply high yield bank accounts. Of course, they don’t offer nearly the ROE as a typical stock might.
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